By Ray Ubinger
http://governyourself.com
D0:00:41.
Forty-one seconds in. BIRD at the beginning. Note frame where two
WHITE TRIANGLES appear on its neck. I assume this is innocent trick of
light or random digital artifact. But since I think you are the discoverer
of the HOLObirds, and previous white triangles, I am bothering to mention
this for the completeness of your info.
D0:00:53 thru D0:00:59.
Two concentrations of unknown stuff atop WTC-2. Left concentration
resembles satellite dishes. Right concentration looks like a black
triangle at first, but then resolves into two separate stubs by the time
the camera moves rightward enough. I was up there on the observation deck
in June 1988. I should find the several instamatic shots I took, some
might yield a useful clue about what was on the rooftops. Not that it
should necessarily have been the same stuff up there 13 years later.
D0:00:59 thru D0:01:02.
Unknown protrusion at upper right of tower.
D0:01:04 thru D0:01:07
Unknown protrusion atop right tower.
D0:01:07 thru D0:01:09.
First sight of the pie-piece-shaped object atop NW corner of WTC-1 that
was there on 9/11.
D0:01:26 thru D0:01:28
First sight of narrator James Hanlon, who's on the right. This spot
looks staged, but I'm not certain. The guy to Hanlon's right is smiling
to begin with, but gets a more serious look when he sees the camera coming
at him. Hanlon's eyes dart down and up like the guy in the front left
is talking about something he's holding, but they also look relaxed,
leaning on one foot, and one or two of the dudes in the back may also
be smiling about being filmed. Hanlon acts first with those darting
eyes, then with a head-whirl to the smiling-then-serious guy, who just made
a hand gestre about something.
About a second later we see them from
this angle:
From left: unknown, rookie Tony Benetatos, unknown, Chris Mullin, and narrator/co-director/PROFESSIONAL-TV-ACTOR-SINCE-1995 James Hanlon.
What was our hero Tony doing as a firefighter
on this PRE-9/11 call to the World Trade Center? Why aren't we ever told about
this assignment? And why are they all just standing around? To get their picture
taken? Maybe so. Benetatos and Mullin are doing just that in another picture
from apparently the same pre-9/11 visit to WTC. See the tourists snap their
photo in the first few seconds of the clip Leadup to a Brave New World at the
link
http://thewebfairy.com/911/911/bravenewworld2.htm
Also see HANLON again, in the background on the right, in that Leadup clip.
It doesn't look like they were putting
out a fire. Why were they called there? To familiarize themselves with the crime
scene ahead of time?